It’s less that two weeks until we fling open the gates of our dedicated show floor, for the 4th annual Alchemy open day! For those of you that haven’t made it to one of our open days here’s a little of what you can expect from this fantastic day: Continue reading
Deadly Sense
Imagine how easily crimes could be solved if you could smell, sense and track the murdered within a matter of minutes. Continue reading
Gothic Gardening
As spring starts to unfurl now is the perfect time to get out into your garden (before summer really hits and you risk exchanging that deathly pallor for a sun kissed shade of orange). And we all know goths secretly love being outdoors even the less witchy types will skulk around in mother nature’s bounty, just check out “Goths up trees” if you have any doubt! While I’m partial to the juxtaposition pretty pink and white flowers can make against beautiful black velvets – there are a number of ways you can bring a bit of darkness into your alfresco living space. The queen of goth gardening is undoubtedly Kat von D whose black garden is awash with… well, black. From black sunflowers to black heart vines, her Hollywood garden shrieks goth. But what of our slightly less clement climes? Dark plants were in vogue in Victorian and Edwardian times with plant breeders eager to pursue a rarity and bring out the black. Below is a list of some of my favourite black and dark purple plants. Continue reading
Strange corpse
I didn’t know her. She just contacted me through social media stating she urgently needed my assistance. According to her, I was the only one who could help. She wanted me to inspect a body but warned me that the details would shock me. I told her, as an experienced Forensic doctor, nothing could surprise me any more. She insisted this was something unique. Continue reading
New Alchemy Rocks Merchandise
Some new, Officially Licensed Merchandise, is now available under our Alchemy Rocks brand. Continue reading
Descent of the Dyad (40 Years of Alchemy)
Through shadow gates and on to blasted glacial crags, Maveth the herald of death drives his caducorian mount to outstrip infernal winds and hasten tidings to regions of hell where Ragnarok still prevails. For high in a towering obsidian edifice, lost souls await an end to an eternity of purgatory. Continue reading
Shadow of the Sentinel (40 Years of Alchemy)
As storm clouds bode ill above Chalisbury, the fate of a sacred treasure rests within the talons of the sentinel of St Levantius. Continue reading
Love is…
‘Love is eternal.’
‘Eternal? So, in other words as a vampire I should love the same person for as long as I live?’
‘Eternal…that is the idea, I believe.’ Continue reading
The Year of the Dog
In the western world the new year may seem to have been and gone an age ago but in the east it is only just arriving… Continue reading
Goth Foods
When you feel like you’ve reached the pinnacle of your gothdom, there’s still an avenue to eke out those extra goth points – goth food and drink! Dark hues of substance to make sure you’re also black on the inside! Continue reading
Babylon Burning (40 Years of Alchemy)
It is the nature of man to light the darkness, and it is his folly to expand his influence and probe the dark places of the worlds above and below. Continue reading
Malevolos (40 Years of Alchemy)
The mighty force of darkness, in the ferocious form of the dragon Malevolos, for the sixth and penultimate time, attempts to destroy the manna of the Saturnine Night. The powers for the good will again prove to be too strong for the great beast and the next endeavour will be his final gambit. Continue reading
Getting into the Evil Christmas Spirit
Christmas is coming…as much as we hate to admit it. The fake joy and forced laughers are just around the corner.
Do not worry!
We have our own way of coping with all of this. Continue reading
Having the Devil of a Wicked Christmas in Whitby!
The last few Christmases have seen the Krampus making his presence felt far beyond his snowy Alpine homelands. For the benefit of the uninitiated, the Krampus is a hairy, horned devil who carries a sack and a switch. He accompanies Saint Nicholas on his Yuletide rounds in early December, and while Nicholas gives gifts to good children, Krampus whips the naughty ones, and pops the really bad little boys and girls in his sack to take away. Continue reading
Midwinter Migration (40 Years of Alchemy)
Betwixt stone and sky on a tailwind to Valhalla, the heirs of Jormungand launch from their lofty eries to follow the inexorable glacial shift that forges mountains in its wake and leads them over the edge of the world to the twilight realm of the gods. Continue reading